生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Pseudobulbs tufted, compressed cylindrical, 3-7 cm long, 2-3 cm wide, ca. 1.5 cm thick, covered by many scales; scales ovate, sulcate abaxially.
• Leaves 2-4, nearly distichous, stiff, coriaceous, linearoblanceolate, 30-40 cm long, upper part flat and expanded, 2-3.5 cm wide, apex acute, basal part gradually slender and becoming conduplicate, midrib impressed on upper surface, elevated on lower surface.
• Peduncle from axil of scales, slender, apex reflexed, ca. 12 cm long, pale green basally, reddish apically, stellate pilose, with remote scales; scales ovate, 2 mm long, apex acute, densely stellate pilose; rachis 5- 7 cm long; pedicel and ovary 6 mm long, 3-ridged, densely stellate pilose. Flowers, numerous, crowded, pale brown, ca. 5 mm long, stellate pilose outside; dorsal sepal ovate-oblong, ± thickened, concave, 3 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, apex rounded, base truncate, with dense reddish hairs outside; lateral sepals thickened, obliquely ovate, 2.5 mm long, 3 mm wide, apex obtuse, free, base truncate and adnate to foot of column forming long saccate mentum, reddish hairy outside; petals obliquely oblong, nearly glabrous, 3 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, apex rounded, base truncate; lip more or less cymbiform, 4 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, glabrous, inconspicuously lobed, apex obtuse, reflexed, base adnate to base of column foot, margin strongly crenulate; column 1 mm long, apex truncate, base developed into long foot, foot 3 mm long, deeply sulcate on ventral surface; anther hood-like, 2-celled; pollinia 8, pyriform, in 2 pairs.

分布

• 台灣 : forests in the south at ca. 1,000 m.
• 世界 : The Philippines, Malaysia, Sumatra, Java and Borneo.

引證標本

TAITUNG: Chinghuiying, Sawada s. n. May 1931; Su 109*.

引用文獻

• SU, Horng-Jye, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 868. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)